"Perhaps you'd prefer to avoid the red tape!"
In the USSR they used to imprison people involved in similar situations on charges of “wrecking”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_58_(RSFSR_Penal_Code)
Engineers who’s projects failed, managers who did not meet politically created goals, designers who’s plane crashed, politicians who brought embarrassment or were unlucky enough to be close to it somehow.
"Perhaps you'd prefer to avoid the red tape!"